"You know what, forget it. I'll walk."

yes

Native controller support is exiting! exciting¡

Luanti plays great on SteamDeck, but setting up the controls has required some experience with Steams controller to keyboard mapping tools.

Fascinating stuff. Thank you for sharing it.

Roughly 1/3 lies is much worse than I would have expected, or hoped for.

The first episode of the 70s BSG had me hooked. Humanity all alone in the universe facing extinction.

And....in the second (third?) epsiode they put their feet up in a space pub full of thriving sentient aliens.

The tone whiplash was strong.

Like the bab5 scene where Londo sings the Hokey Pokey and gets irate because it's a totally mid-tier song that 'everybody" knows.

"...and then they put their left hand out! They've undone their previous progress! It makes no sense!"

It's a great rant. Now I need a Babylon 5 rewatch. Thanks!

Yes. Enterprise was canceled just as it found it's stride.

You can look up the composition of each index, before you buy it.

Usually I need a web search to map the stock ticker to a holding company and then another wwb search to map the holding company to a real company.

You'll see heavy amounts of Microsoft, Alphabet (Google) and Amazon in anything that is just blindly buying with an algorithm - almost as if algorithm companies are good at fooling an algorithm...

Searching for funds with a non-technology focus will help, or searching for funds that focus on providing a dividend return (today's biggest tech companies are deep in debt and usually don't pay a quarterly dividend.)

Companies that do routinely pay a dividend are under some pressure to resoond to their customers rather than to CEO hype waves.

This is excellent advice. I don't know the future. I just know that technology is acting the ways it did before previous busts, but much worse this time.

Still... transportation is looking really good, right now. Everybody needs stull delivered.

Be sure to dig into the composition of any index fund you buy. Many of them have so much technology stock that they're both indistinguishable from each-other and also doomed (edit: As was pointed out - yes this is hyperbole. I am neither from the future nor a sacred prophet of a time traveling diety.).

The market does great over time, but anyone in tech can tell you this is an abysmal time to buy in to tech stock.

Any fund that blindly buys big popular companies is going to be shattered by the coming tech bubble bursting.

Look for funds with rules for inclusion. Today's tech stocks are fraught with fraud may have trouble passing those rules.

Ethical funds exist, but don't currently go far enough to protect your investment. Smoking is bad, but certain kinds of warmongering are apparently a-ok...

Sector specific funds like energy, or transportation have much lower exposure to the current tech bubble.

Right. Right. But maybe we should choose democratically - with one vote per dollar not allocated to mere survival...

(Hopefully this sarcasm is obvious.)

I don't want that machine

Let's take care not to lose sight of what billionaire nepo-babies want.